Laws Passed by the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 41
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JOINT RESOLUTION
For the relief of Captains Roberts', Jackson's, and Soweil's Companies
of Rangers.
SEC. 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled,
That the Auditor be, and he is hereby required to audit the
claims of captains Mark R. Roberts, Daniel R. Jackson, and Joseph
Sowell, and the officers and soldiers under their respective
commands, for services rendered in the years eighteen hundred
and thirty-nine, eighteen hundred and forty, and eighteen hundred
and forty-one, as rangers, in the county of Fannin, so soon
as proper discharges are presented, and that said audited drafts be
receivable for all government dues heretofore accruing; and the
Auditor is hereby authorized and required to issue said drafts to
the bona fide holder or assignee of the above-named discharges.
SEC. 2. Be it further resolved, That this joint resolution take
effect from and after its passage.
Approved 17th January, 1842.
AN ACT
To regulate the descent and distribution of Intestates' Estates,
approved twenty-eighth January, one thousand eight hundred
and forty.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and IHouse of Repre
sentatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled,
That the seventh and eighth sections of the above-entitled act
shall be controlled and governed by the provisions of the fourth
section of said act; and farther, that should there be either father
or mother of the intestate surviving, instead of the estate of the
intestate taking the direction indicated in said seventh and eighth
sections, the whole shall be inherited and descend upon such
surviving parent, or both, in equal moieties, should both survive;
and such surviving parent, or parents, shall not be excluded, no
matter in what manner the estate may have been acquired by the
intestate.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved 17th January, 1812.
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